This collection of essays reflects the current interdisciplinary and international nature of the history of nursing scholarship. The book addresses the issues of professionalism within nursing, the social and ethical issues which are woven into the relationship between the nurse/midwife and her patient/client, the trans-cultural dimensions nurses create when they move from one culture to another and the recent developments in historiography and covers a range from the 18th century to the 20th and draws on research from eleven different countries.